Explaining the emission lines in early-type galaxies
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2025-03-17 v1
Authors:
Grażyna Stasińska
Abstract
We explore the hypothesis that the weak emission lines observed in some early-type galaxies (ETGs) are due to ionization by hot low-mass evolved stars (HOLMES) and analyze the pros and cons.
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@article{arxiv.2503.11415,
title = {Explaining the emission lines in early-type galaxies},
author = {Grażyna Stasińska},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.11415},
year = {2025}
}
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